discuss: consistency in KDE GUI

[Orville Bennett]

On Dec 22, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, 22. Dezember 2006 14:47, schrieb Orville Bennett:
>> On Dec 22, 2006, at 1:12 AM, subbukk wrote:
>>> Should KDE core libs be engineered to encourage (or enforce) this
>>> consistency?
>>
>> How do you encourage consistency with a set of libraries? I can see
>> how you could enforce this, but "therein lies the path to destruction
>> my son."
>
> Oh. What do you mean by this?
By forcing someone to conform to your standards of what is best, you  
encourage them to go elsewhere. Some applications violate certain  
aspects of the HIG as it stands, and will probably continue to do so  
in the future. If compliance were forced upon them they could choose  
in the begin, they could easily have chosen another platform to  
develop on, if it's forced after, they could choose to spend valuable  
time trying to undo this instead of contributing to their respective  
apps. And that, that would be a shame.
>
> Friedrich
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